Easier To Be Saved

The only thing that comes to mind is.Is it easier to pick up the bible and read it or leave it there on the shelf?It's easier just to leave it there!

Just so you can understand the great effort it takes just to make you pick it up!I'll go as far as to say the real strength come in reading it.Again not only do I believe, I know! Only God can make you.

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

Stop right now!Lord of the harvest, please send forth more labourers!God loves you!Peace!

If by "easy" you mean which takes less effort,then being lost is far easier.

But the life of the unsaved is often far from easy!With no constraints on the use of alcohol, drugs, sex, the practice of gambling and other destructive habits, life can become downright miserable.Without the Lord to turn to and depend upon, any stress may become a crisis. And what comes after death is a fearful unknown.

Francis, I read what you said, and feel that you are wrong when you said,

"It is much easier to be saved. The bible says that the wags of SIN is death. It takes HARD WORK to be lost. You have to put in extra time just to be lost. SIN IS WORK."

The descendants of Adam after the fall did not have to put extra time to be lost, they are born lost and condemned already, which is the reason they are in very much need of Christ. The wages of sin is death, and the reason everyone dies. But in Christ we have eternal life. If it is so easy, why are so many heading to hell? Or are you one who doesn't believe in hell?

"Good understanding gains favor,But the way of the unfaithful is hard." (Proverbs 13:15)

"'Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.'" (Matthew 11:29-30)

But this is not just "hard", but "impossible with men" > "But He said, 'The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.'" (Luke 18:27) And ones fool themselves into "salvation" which depends on them, instead of on God, so it does not get easier and better.

It is much easier to be saved. The bible says that the wags of SIN is death. It takes HARD WORK to be lost. You have to put in extra time just to be lost. SIN IS WORK.

Take for example adultery How mych work, planning and scheeming has to be doen just to commit one act of adultery?Where as one who is saved has to do nothing No scheming, no hiding, no plottingjust believe God and obey him. 99% of all God's commandments require you 6o do NOTHINGNo stealingno lieingno adulteryno killingno making idolsno covettingno false worshipno work one day each weekno taking his name in vainno disrespecting parentsjust do NOTHING and be savedor WORK and be lost

I think when you look at some of the words used in salvation: endure, wrestle, struggle, fight,compared to war, offering ourselves as a sacrifice,ought (which means in the Greek we are in debted, like a bond-slave,we have been given,not earned, something we need and belong to the one who gave it to do as they say), told to stand, not be moved. These are very strong words. Being lost is what is natural and deception makes us believe things that aren't true which in the end will lead to death. Were as salvation leads to life.